- Last week, the Strange Horizons reviews department focused on Greg Egan: Karen Burnham tackled Axiomatic and Dark Integers, Colin Harvey looked at Quarantine and Teranesia, and Adam Roberts considered Incandescence. And, of course, the fund drive is still going.
- L. Timmel Duchamp’s Wiscon Guest of Honour speech [pdf]
- The new Internet Review of SF includes Nader Elhefnawy on the golden age of sf television and Robert Bee on worldbuilding in Languages of Pao and Babel-17
- Michael Saler in the TLS on Michael Chabon, David Hajdu, fan fiction and comic book culture
- Gary K Wolfe reviews Implied Spaces by Walter Jon Williams; Russell Letson reviews Dust by Elizabeth Bear
- Another positive review of The Gone Away World
- Abigail Nussbaum is looking for books that “feature characters whose lives are lived primarily in the mind, and who view the world, and interact with it most fully, through their intellect“
- Sarah Monette on Neil Gaiman’s story “The Problem of Susan“
- Steven Shaviro on Dr Franklin’s Island by Ann Halam (aka Gwyneth Jones) and Proxies by Laura Mixon
- Matt Cheney on Pump Six by Paolo Bacigalupi
- Paul Raven tackles The Book of the New Sun
- An interview with Rivka Galchen, whose Atmospheric Disturbances sounds interesting
- Paul Kincaid’s latest sf sceptic column is about why we review: “when you come down to it, we’re in the business of enjoying science fiction
- Jonathan McCalmont’s latest Blasphemous Geometries column is about sf and YA
- Musings on The Raw Shark Texts
- An interview with Benjamin Rosenbaum, whose The Ant King and Other Stories is now looking at me impatiently from my TBR pile
- An interview with Charles Stross, in the Guardian
- And finally, some British fandom history: Ken Slater’s book reviews, 1953-9
*Ahem* Blasphemous Geometries!
Oops. Fixed!
Rivka Galchen, by the way, had a very nice SF story this year in The New Yorker. (“The Region of Unlikeness”, March 17.)